A fixture for a standard F40T12 fluorescent tube light. The piece intentionally exposes the ballast, wires and electrical outlet required for the light to operate.

The light plugs directly into an outlet, requiring a user to plug and unplug to turn it on and off.

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A fluorescent light fixture is not meant to call attention to the ballast hidden inside of it that is required to operate. Most people don’t even know it is there or that standard household electricity needs to be altered in order for a fluorescent light to work. Is it possible to expose the ballast as part of the fixture so that it adds aesthetic value and also acknowledges its technological inner workings?

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design diagram:

Keira Alexandra once told us that her grandfather, Vladimir Ossipov kept a list of things he did for each day of the year in a book where each page was dedicated to one day. For example, on February 4th, he would weigh himself and record it on the same page year after year. We wanted to manufacture yearly rituals in a similar way.

So here’s 365.

Each day of the year has a page that is only editable for that day of the year. So we can add entries to the January 1st page on Jan 1 2009, or Jan 1 2010, etc. Follow us on twitter twitter.com/cwandt

This watch is built with an automatic mechanical movement. There is no stem to set the hour hand or wind the mechanism. So if you want to change the time, remove the old string and add string in the appropriate holes to mark 12 o’clock, 6 o’clock or whatever combination you like. Over time, the accumulation of string leaves behind a history of your notations.

The Pursuit of Stillness is an interactive projection designed for Acconci Studio’s Corian Furniture Installation in the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Acconci’s installation is part of year long series celebrating the Centennial Year of the Grand Concourse.

The software was written using Open Frameworks with openCV with Optical Flow. The application controls 25 high speed video loops, each mapped to a trigger position on the floor. The video was shot using a Casio Exilim EX-FH20 and the camera tracking uses an overhead PS3 camera.

by CW&T (Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy)

Pursuit of Stillness – CW&T from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

The Pursuit of Stillness from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

Blockhead Stem is the sturdiest stem you’ll ever meet. A solid chunk of aluminum machined with sharp edges and corners, this stem is not for everyone. Ride it at your own risk.

Material: 7075 Aluminum
Length:40mm
Clamp diameter: 26mm
Rize: 0 degrees
Steerer tube diameter: 1-1/8″
Dimensions: 53mm x 53mm x 86.79mm
Weight: 501.8 grams
Includes: 6 stainless steel screws

One night in Bed-Stuy we imagined it and needed it for our fancy bikes.

For wholesale inquiries, please contact us at cwandt(at)cwandt(dot)com

Blockhead Stem is licensed under a creative commons license. Take our design, modify it, make one for yourself. But please don’t sell them because we need money to buy and eat dumplings. Give credit where it’s due. We actually want you to go find your machinist buddy and see if he or she can make it for super cheap. We spent about a month searching for a quality machinist that can produce them on demand. If you find a better machinist please share.

Download [blkhdstm001.stp] to mill it on your own.
Download [blkhdstm001.pdf] for specifications.
Add 6 stainless steel socket cap screws (Metric 18-8 SS Socket Head Cap Screw M6 Thread, 30mm Length, 1mm Pitch)

thanks oh and you rock. love, cw&t

eat cupcakes. ride blockhead.

Blockhead Stem by Che-Wei Wang, Taylor Levy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This piece can be understood as a really broken computer monitor. Or as the most simple possible computer monitor. Instead of human language, the display shows computer language that is enlarged in scale and intensity and is difficult for most humans to read.

At this terminal, where human language is truncated at the point of computer language and computer language is magnified to human scale. Conversation and the subjectivity of language vanishes. This is left.

wear sunglasses so you look cool.

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itp 2009 spring show & my thesis

process photos

concrete process photos

Materials: drywall, concrete, electronics, plaster teeth.

maybe i’m not drinking enough water from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

These images document my effort to simplify the complexities of photography as a way to make subtle gestures.

Is it possible to gesture within the language of photography?
Is it possible to just photograph light?

The constraints of a technological medium are highly significant and should not be overlooked. Exposure time is contingent on the technology of the photographic medium.

There is also an implicit spatial delineation between the interior and exterior of the camera. These technological impositions are highly significant and arbitrary in relationship to an artistic vision.

It is difficult to gesture. It is difficult to say small things.

slow resolution display made out of standard lightbulbs and thermochromic paint.

This display lives at the intersection of digital control and analog output. A matrix of lightbulbs painted with thermochromic paint allows for an image to appear and dissipate analogously to the temperature of each bulb.

The overall effect defies our ordinary understanding of materials and time within technological systems.
In this case, lightbulbs are used for heat and not light. And the refresh rate of an image is constrained to the time it takes for the material of the screen to change temperature.

Here are some images and links to our first prototype. More to come in the future!

itp winter show 2008

a collaboration with superheroes:
che-wei wang & alex abreu

more images